Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-04-29
Op!sIEAI AND BORROWED.

prejudices. It's now making i'Soii
as much at home in Missouri, Ken
lucky and Ohio as in Minnesota, or
as, of late, in Virginia.
The Supreme Court of Appeals
in the case of Chafin VS.. Lynch,
holds that the law of libel gives a
man the right TO use insulting Ian
guage in a paper in reply to an IN
sulting card.
We learn from the Richmond
State that Detective Dan Wren, Of
that city, died Saturday morning,
in his oath year. He was a men,
Der of the police force for many
years, and for long time connect
ed with the detective agency of his
brother, John Wren. He leaves a
family.
Mrs. Polk, the widow of Jas. X.
Polk, tenth President Of the United
States, is over eighty years of age,
but she is in good health and she
Possesses a memory Of unimpaired
vigor. She resides in the old Polk
homestead at Nashville, Tenn, a
large, roomy, two-stOry building
made of brick.
VIM. Randolph Smith, late clerk
in the State auditors Office, who
was convicted Of embezzlement of
funds while in that position, and
sent to the penltentiary, died Sat
urday at his clearinghouse, in
Richmond. Smith was pardoned
ont Of the penitentiary a few weeks
ago upon the certificate Of physi-
clans that longer incarceration
would kill him.
The railroad conductor in Mime
sofa who is, since the Interstate
Commerce Law went into effect,
collecting the full tariff from his
passengers instead of a former COM
mutation rate, must be the same
one who. when applying for the po-
sition, on being asked how many Of
the fares collected he would turn in,
replied, whatever had been Gus
tomary, and being told that former
conductors bad pocketed it all, said
that was perfectly satisfactory to
him.
A Michigan housewife instituted
damage suit against a rent col
lector who entered her kitchen with
muddy shoes just after she had
finished scrubbing. Thejury, after
four hours deliberatiOn, brought
in a verdict for twenty-five cents.
Woman suffragists should not fail
10 avail themselves of the Opportu-
nifty this case offers to prove
the necessity of having women on
Jury. What does a man know OF
the value of a clean kitchen any
how?
It's stated that the Interstate
Commerce Commissioners have put
in a claim for payment from the LIST
of January, although they were
only commissioned in the last days
of March. The ground of the claim
Is that their respective terms of
Office will end with the calendar
year and the presumption must be
that they began with the year 1887.
The claim is probably a sound one,
and it shows that the commission
ers will in their own affairs prefer
the "long haulr TO the "shOrt haul"
every time.
1t is said that Oscar Simons, one
of the wealthiest bankers in In
diana, who committed suicide the
other day, did so because he was
likely to lose some 100000 by en-
dorsement, although be would still
have had left a handsome fortune
for himself and family. This seems
strange, but the philosophy Of 1t
nevertheless Is very plain. His
mind was unable to bear the strain
produced by bis probable loss, and
be ended his life in a fit of insanity.
There are millions Of other people
who could have lost their last dol
lar and still have retained their
reason and equanimity.
In all the talk about the second
term il is we'll to keep in mind this
unusual paragraph which formed a
part of President Cleyeland's letter
accepting the Democratic nomina'
ton for president:
mo means tending 10 the full
realization Of a form of government
by the people would be more ef-
tectIve than an amendment 10 the
Constitution disqualifying the pres
ident for reelection. We reeog'
nize in the eligibility Of the presi'
dent for reelection a most serious
danger TO that calm, deliberate and
intelligent political action which
must characterize a government by
the people"
i special from Philadelphia 70
the New York Tribune says At
the Office OF the Pennsylvania Rail.
road it is denied that there has been
any extensive stealing on the Pitts
burg division Of the Pittsburg, Gin
tinnati, and ST. Louis Railroad
The officers OF the main line declare
that The reports Of wholesale plum.
dtring we're started by detectives
in order to magnify their services.
There has been plltenDg, they adj
nit; bnt they declare that to carry
OH the Wholesale robbery that is
charged would be simply impOssi-